CB, I think it’s really bad to donate all your money beyond basic needs. I think EA is taking advantage of you and hurting you. You’ve clarified that you were exaggerating, but that only lessens the severity of the problem.
I don’t know you very well or personally. You probably won’t like to hear this. But we talked enough, on friendly terms, that I thought it was my moral responsibility to speak up once, in case it would help you. And you made a debate policy due to my suggestion, and I think you’re wrong about this and I’m willing to debate it (but I don’t want to use your debate policy to make you discuss this if you don’t want to).
If you want to discuss this further and are open to considering that maybe you’re being exploited by EA, but you just can’t bring yourself to part with $20, I will give you free access for a few months. (Context for others reading this: I won’t discuss at the EA forum due to the new CC BY licensing rule.)
If you want to read any more information to consider this in a lower pressure way, without talking with me, I’ve written some relevant things:
- Effective Altruism Hurts People Who Donate Too Much
- Effective Altruism Is Mostly Wrong About Its Causes
- Effective Altruism Related Articles which links to multiple things including my EA blog category where you can currently find more than five new articles that I didn’t post on the EA site (and more are coming soon).